"My problem is not them leaving," he said. "My problem is you did it in 48 hours. Don't run away with a girl after one date when you've been dating someone else for three or four years. You've been dating this woman for 30 years, show a little respect."

It's not that Pitino doesn't have a point. It's just that he's probably not the best one to make it. After all, last year Pitino admitted in court to cheating on his wife of 30 years with a woman, Karen Sypher, who later attempted to extort him for alleged rape, for which a judge sentenced her to seven years in prison. When a Syracuse partisan like Sean Keeley, blogger at Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician, makes that exact point -- well, you can understand where Sean's coming from.

Don't get me wrong: I like Pitino's candor. And he's spot on about the hypocrisy (there goes that word again) inherent when athletic directors proclaim fealty to student-athletes one day and then rearrange their conference configurations the next. But as analogies go ... yeah. Yikes.